[Javascript] Including Files

[David Lovering]

Yes, but with caveats.

Because most of the implementations of JavaScript that I'm familiar with
don't let you backtrack directories (via the SRC="../../my_page.js" method),
you generally find it more convenient to put your primary script at the top
of a descending directory tree, and your "custom" stuff in descending
directories beneath it.  For example,

SRC="./subdirA/myPage.js" generally works on most versions.  In cases where
it doesn't, you can often create a directory alias which will do the job.
This is part of the OS feature set, and has next to nothing to do with
JavaScript per se.

Hope that helps a little bit.

-- Dave Lovering

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Makins" <spindrift at oceanfree.net>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:07 AM
Subject: [Javascript] Including Files


> <SCRIPT SRC="my_page.js"></SCRIPT>
>
> The above line lets me include an external script in my page.
>
> I have two questions about this...
>
> A/ If I had three folders: 'folder_A, folder_B, folder_C' each of which
> contain the file 'my_page.js', is there any way a script could specify
which
> one of those folders to load 'my_page.js' from?
>
> B/ Similarly, if I had 1 folder, and in it were 3 files: 'my_page1.js,
> my_page2.js, my_page3.js', is there any way a script could specify which
one
> of those files to load?
>
> Tim in Ireland.
>
> PS in case someone (there usually is someone) asks why I want to do this,
> the answer is that I have a large amount of data, and rather than trying
to
> load it all in one go, it makes more sense to split it up and get the data
> as required. This is for a local display on a static machine reading from
CD
> or harddrive, so no servers, ASP, PHP, databases, etc. are involved.
>
>
>
>
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